"I'm feeling a lot of humility. This has been an opportunity that the voters of our great city have bestowed upon me to be our city's next mayor. The office does not belong to me, it belongs to the voters. I'm just trying to take everything in and think about what lies ahead," Bolden said Tuesday night.

When Bolden takes office in July, he will succeed Mayor William Truly, whom he defeated in a runoff that followed the Democratic primary.

In the Ward 1 Board of Aldermen race, Rodriguez Brown, a Democrat, was leading independent Jeff Ross by one vote.